Lucia Dancing

These queens Emma Dewey and Shayna Olsan joined me for this dance in celebration of our bodies, this shared sunny moment, and fresh air to breathe. The elemental joy of movement, together, is an irreplaceable gift. So much fullness in this dance! Waxing and waning sways and falls.  I am going to miss these women when the summer comes and those few of us left in Brunswick go our separate ways. I know that the wisdom and love we have all shared will carry me on in the coming months/years of this new twilight zone world. Until the next outdoor dance! Note: Video footage condenses space! Music:  Funky Sensation by Disclosure ft. Gwen CcCrae Blue Tirana by Tony Malaby, Johnny Åman, Peter Nilsson, Per-Oscar Nilsson

In honor of Nancy Stark Smith (1952-2020). The percolation of your profound movement wisdom reached me last year and through the Underscore I learned how to see my body as firmly whole in its own place. Embodying "streaming" (the sense of ongoing lifeforce flowing from one's body) gave my work Like Water depth and perspective. In your honor, I share some of my authentic reflections after the first two Underscores I participated in. In addition, a short (very silhouetted) dance ruminating on the wisdom of your teachings.  "In the beginning, I was a sea creature. A jellyfish, a squid, a fish swimming around the dark ocean trying to find her school. I was underwater but I could breathe, floating, diving, slithering along the ocean floor, luxuriating in the feel of the sand on me. I am not sure who I am but I transform, ahh legs to carry me. Wanting to curl up like a leaf in the crest of her tree's trunk, nestled just right. Play like newborn jaguars, along the st...